Harmonica

I've just bought a harmonica, and I have to share with you my excitement at its glory. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Oh, it's hot. Seriously, everyone with any musical blood running through their body should buy one. MMine was £9.95, first hand from just a normal music shop, and it's perfectly good. It's chromatic which means I can play all the notes I could on a small piano. And they're just amazing, coz it's pretty impossible to make a tune that sounds wrong, and you can get so many different sounds and tones and styles out of them, and they just about fit in your pocket and can be played anywhere...

Except maybe in Quaker meetings, libraries, etc. I was going to go to a Quaker meeting this morning. i've been once before and it's awesome. It's a bit strange at first, coz all you do is sit in silence for an hour with everyone else in the room, and every now and then someone says something to the meeting that they want to share. But it's so peaceful, and it helps you calm and evaluate and organise and settle your thoughts. Also, you're meant to think about love and community and God etc (I'm not religious, but religious Quakers (!) see it as sitting listening for God), so you end up thinking about important things and valuing love etc a lot more. Anyway, I've onyl been once so I'm making some sweeping generalisations here, but I'd say, as with the harmonica, try it at least once coz it's one of those experiences that's worth while for what it teaches you even if you don't want to do it regularly. As with all non-addictive, legal things, don't knock it until you've tried it!

All the best (end of babbling).

Sally